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How many times have you taken a class, you leave with every good intention to implement what you have learned. But you complete the class, go back to work, start doing the day to day activities and soon that class is long gone. You forget 80% of everything you learned and have [...]
“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” Jim Rohn
If we are going to be the best that we can be in this life, then it is important that you surround yourself with others who are striving to be the best that they can be. When you are [...]
In many sales-oriented networking books and course, people are taught that networking is a selling tool and part of that lesson is what’s known as the Three Foot Rule: “Anyone within three feet of you is an opportunity to make a sale.”
We feel that not only is this bad advice for the networker, one that seriously decreases the [...]
I am a novice blogger compared to many on the internet and I am sure there is so much more for me to learn, but I am proud to say that I have made to 2 top 100 list and I can’t wait to see what happens when I get really good at this.
I went out into my backyard today to look at my crop of Indiana Tomatoes. I was quite disappointed to find that they still have not ripened. The weather has been very cool this year and that means the tomatoes ripen more slowly. I am losing my patience because I want vine ripe tomatoes NOW!
Ironically, [...]
As the economy took a hit and began to spiral down, email newsletters went up! I am getting triple what I use to get. I did not sign up for the emails, I did not ask to get them, I simply gave someone my business card and they believed that gave them permission to put me on their mailing list.
Do you LOVE what you do? Would you do it for free if you had too? I love what I do. I know that what I do makes a major difference in the lives of others, I wake up in the morning excited about my day. Do you? This morning as I was speaking to [...]
I spoke at a luncheon recently about networking and one young lady posed an interesting question that I would like to take the time to address here.
“I know that I need to network, but can you tell me which groups would be a waste of time.” I am sure there was more conversation around that [...]
Aristotle said, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence,then, is not an act, but a habit.
So, let me ask, what habits have you created around your referrals business?
Networking is a person to person activity, we meet, we talk and we share pleasantries with one another. When we meet and start the process of building a business relationship we are looking for people who energize us, people we want to be around. Now and then we meet people we wish we did not [...]